Dual-Immersion Program Credited For Elementary School's Improved Test Scores

The San Francisco Chronicle (4/21, Tucker) reports that according to "parents, teachers and administrators" at San Francisco's Marshall Elementary School, the "recipe" for turning around a struggling school includes "quality teachers, involved parents and a supportive principal mixed perhaps with a new dual-immersion language program. Time must be allowed to let it all take hold." Test scores at Marshall Elementary "have been improving as has the school's popularity since the" dual immersion "program started six years ago." It "combines English learners and native speakers with the goal that all students will obtain grade-level literacy and proficiency in both English and Spanish by the time they move on to middle school." On Monday, US Deputy Secretary of Education Tony Miller visited the school to learn about the effort Marshall has made to improve test scores.